Death Note news articles

Parents at Sycamore Elementary School, in Collierville, Tennessee, are calling for a young boy to be expelled after he created his own 'Death Note'.

The ten year old apparently ripped a page from an ordinary notebook, wrote 'Death Note' on the top and listed class-mates names underneath. Then passed it around his fifth grade class.

This naturally panicked the children whose names featured on the list. One of whom was the daughter of Jill Wiernik, who approached her mother in floods of tears at home time.

The mother immediately marched into the Principal's Office and had the boy suspended from school for two weeks.

On April 23rd 2014, he was back in class. This didn't impress Ms Wiernik, who used Facebook to rally other parents to the cause of getting the child expelled for good. She told EyeWitness News, 'This is criminal activity, and it needs to be handled not only by a juvenile court but by the board of education. And they're not looking out for the best interest of the 800 students.'

For the record, Death Note is fiction, and even within that universe the names had to be written upon a page supplied by a Shinigami. Personally, I'm not convinced that merely writing 'Death Note' at the top of an ordinary piece of paper - in the real world - constitutes the making of the next Light Yagami. Particularly since no child died of a heart attack within the next 40 seconds.

German rockers No Need to Stay are Death Note fans. We can tell because one of their earliest releases is a song all about the manga. The Chosen One includes lyrics like:

Oh baby, come on, take my hand This is our chance to be on top of the world Only you and me and our insanity This deadly notebook is everything we'll need.

No Need to Stay are based in Rudolstadt, Germany. Their musical influences include Linkin Park, Asking Alexandria and I See Stars, so expect Screamo hardcore rock. If you want to check out more, then you'll find them on Facebook and Twitter.

Andy Kelso isn't your obvious Light Yagami. Cute as he is, he's way too old to play a schoolboy in the Death Note stage show.

Nevertheless, the NYC actor was the one chosen to act the part of our favourite teen megalomaniac, in the first read through of Frank Wildhorn's Death Note: The Musical.

The show has been written in English, but will be translated into Japanese and Korean ahead of their world premiers in 2015.

The cast arrayed in New York, on April 14th 2014, will not be those performing in the actual Death Note theatre show. They were just there as part of a workshop to see how the script works as a physical performance.

Two things spring to mind. The first is 'who's Toko?' and the second is the Musical will only cover the opening arc of the story. Unless it retells it completely. I see no Mello, Near, Hal et al in that character list.

Death Note gamers will now be able to pit their wits against a series of puzzles and ciphers, in a new Smartphone App game released by Shueisha.

The first part of Death Note Shinsekai e no Izanai (Death Note Invitation to a New World) launched on April 12th 2014 for devices running iOS or Android. With the second, third and fourth parts coming in staggered releases at the end of April, middle of May and the end of that month respectively.

The Death Note Smartphone App is currently only available in Japanese.

Players will find themselves inside a locked room, from which they need to escape. This involves following clues, deactivating/bypassing traps and solving puzzles in order to unlock the door.

It's been created as part of Death Note's 10th Anniversary celebrations. Anyone downloading it as we speak?

Was there ever a more Kira-esque pose in the whole of prime-time television?

They even share the same school uniform! (Give or take a badge and a jacket.)

But the schoolboy brandishing a deadly pen here isn't Light Yagami. It's Bobby Busecki, as played by Alec Medlock, in an episode of Warehouse 13.

The US drama is about a team charged with locating and safeguarding dangerous artefacts at large in the world. No doubt if the universes ever crossed for real, their warehouse shelves would be the obvious repository for any recovered Death Notes.

Nevermore is the Warehouse 13, season one episode featuring Bobby Busecki. His story isn't lifted directly from the pages of the Death Note manga, but the correlation is clear to fans.

He wields a pen, linked to a notebook, which causes death and destruction via supernatural means out in the world. He's a schoolboy, wearing a white shirt and red tie. The power plays havoc with his mind, resulting in megalomania revealed in grand speeches.

Kira or Bobby? That description fits both. In each case too, the schoolboy may only be stopped by a genius mind guiding US Secret Service agents to the source. But there, to my mind, is where the links end.

Anyone else seen this? Or any other shades of Kira in totally separate stories?

As part of this blog, I promised to highlight those Death Note fans who scattered when MangaBullet went down.This is the first of the monthly Focus on a Fan feature!

The rest of this entry is given over to, and penned by, Orangepunch!

Hello all!

It feels a little weird to be the first person to write one of these…

Anyways! I guess as far as I understand it, it is supposed to be a blog post of what I’ve been up to and where I am now if you want to find me, and otherwise basically treat it like I might’ve done to one of my journal entries.

So, here goes!

TL;DR- life and love ramblings, you know. Skip to the bottom if you want to know where to find me <3

The Misadventures of Fangirls on a Mission by Orangepunch

Before MB went down, I remember one of the last blog posts being about how I was trying to move to San Francisco. So, I’m really happy to greet you by telling you all that I did end up in San Francisco, and have had the most exhilarating time here so far. It is such a hard city to make it in, but I did it and I’m here!

This is an incredibly rough update of the past couple of years, which includes lots of firsts, some high highs and some lows, lots of fun and growth.

I have to say, the decision to come to San Francisco has absolutely got to be one of the best I made in my entire life, just because of my personal growth.

I’ve really developed my confidence, and really come into myself and my sexuality, among about a million other little changes that happened a day at a time as I got more and more comfortable with my self-liberation. Serenaded, of course, by Lady Gaga. (Who else?!)

One thing I got into after moving to SF is herbalism, and I really love it. I got started in it when I got a job at a health food store as a health and wellness educator.

Fast-forward a couple of years, and I’m actually quite knowledgeable in the area now. I really enjoy having this as a hobby, even if it is also my job. I am constantly learning more about herbal healing. So, that’s one new thing I’m up to I guess.

About a month ago I was fired from my job. It was a part of a mass culling the company went through, and next to no one who had been with the company more than a year is still there now. I was sad, but also relieved because I couldn’t stand the company I worked for anymore. I loved my manager and coworkers, and I definitely really loved my job, but the company itself had really poor values overall.

A few days after getting let go, I got violently ill. I had an awful combination of strep throat, an ear infection, the beginnings of a sinus infection, and some kind of stomach bug. The stomach bug was the more ‘violent’ part of the illness, and lasted nearly two weeks, even after the ear and throat pain had cleared up. I couldn’t eat, at all, for about ten days. Given my illness, it was actually a good thing I wasn’t actually employed at the time!

Meanwhile I was literally getting calls from company representatives whose products were carried in the store I was fired from. I had worked with and gotten to know them quite well over the past couple of years. They loved me (apparently) and if I was now looking for work, they wanted me to work for them.

It was honestly one of the strangest experiences of my life—to be called and offered a job interview, instead of the stressful process of applying for a job. It was a massive stress relief, and at the same time a huge confidence boost. I had a moment after one of them called me, and I kind oh thought ‘Wait, am I good at something?! Am I that valuable?!’ It’s made me really excited about it, all over again.

So, I basically fell right into a new (better!) job in the same field. I do the same job as before, but I also get to choose what products the store carries and whatnot, like a manager. I am incredibly happy about where I ended up because I am working in the Castro district of San Francisco now. (WOO HOO!!!!)

To be honest, as soon as I got the interview at this place, I was pretty certain it was the job I wanted based on location alone out of all the people giving me offers.

I’d wanted to be more heavily involved in the LGBT community of San Francisco, and clocking out of work and already being in the area, instead of having an hour of bussing to get there, would help that a lot. There is something incredibly amazing about working, and really being a part of SF’s LGBT community, instead of just visiting. I really, really love it.

The Castro in San Franscisco is getting rainbow walkways!

If anyone is interested, I wrote about the history of the Castro , and plan to do a follow up, as my friend has set up a chance for me to meet some members of the Radical Faeries!!! I should have that written some time in the next month, and I’ve been planning it for several months now, so I am absolutely thrilled about the chance to finally meet some of these history-making men.

About two weeks ago I actually got strep throat again(!!!). I have gotten strep every year but this is the first year I’ve ever had it twice! And harking back to the awfulness of my previous illness, it got really bad. I lived.

I wasn’t about to let strep stop me from attending my first Tool concert (which may or may not have something to do with how bad it got >.>). It was as awesome as I anticipated it being. I (kind of, sort of, accidentally) ended up in my first mosh pit. It was equally exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. I got punched in the face.

And then, that same week, I got not one but TWO tattoos. And one of those two was my first tattoo… :D

The first was a really simple little peace sign on my back. It wasn’t meant to really be anything beyond a simple first tattoo, and associating myself with certain communities/lifestyles.

The second one though, I freaking adore. It is a unicorn, on the inside of my ring finger on my right hand.

It holds a lot of meaning for me. In the simplest of explanations, it is supposed to represent some sort of spirit guide for me, for life to come.

Orangepunch's Unicorn Tattoo

I’m trying to let go some on my strict adherence to the most rational or realistic answers to life. For example, moving to SF was technically a very stupid decision to have made, but it ended up being one of the best things that could’ve happened. It also has a really personal meaning on top of that, too.

I’ve not gotten too crazy, but I am really enjoying life right now. Leaving out a lot of stories of fun times, ups and downs, new experiences, weird experiences with new people in strange places (like finding myself hanging out on a rooftop at 5 am with complete strangers who became new friends in a night)...and so on, that’s what I’ve been up to the past few years.

In the words of my first apartment-mate here in SF—I work hard to party hard. SF has really been the sort of paradise I had really envisioned it being.

The one thing that was missing throughout this all was my MB community, there was something so amazing, empowering, and unique about the group of people that clustered together over Death Note, Mello, and Matt.

Personally, it was the first community like this that I’d ever really been a part of, and for all those reasons, I definitely will always love you guys.

Thankfully, I did keep in contact with many of the folks who I chatted regularly with on MB, but there are many more of you out there that I am missing! So if you want to connect with me, I kind of have practically all the social mediums!! (No seriously, I might have a problem…) These include:

We know Mamaro Miyano as the voice of Light Yagami. But he's much more than that.

Mamaro was just 23 years old when he landed the part that made him famous amongst fans of the Death Note anime. It's his voice speaking over all those sub-titles for those who disdained the dubbed versions.

In 2008, he took the Best Voice Actor award - jointly for Light and Setsuna F Seiei in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - at the Tokyo International Anime Fair.

Time may have stood still, freezing him in 2006, as far as the Death Note fandom is concerned. But not for the actor himself.

Short pause while everyone gets their heads around Dent and Light being one and the same, at least insofar as voices are concerned.

He's also acted in front of the camera with roles in Tokusou Exceedraft and The Prince of Tennis. He reprised his part in the latter for a stage musical version.

But running alongside this acting career is another one. Mamaro Miyano is quite the pop star in Japan. Are you ready to hear Light Yagami singing?

Mamoru Miyano

Mamaro's music career began in 2007, the year after he shot to international fame as Raito's Japanese voice. His first two singles - Kuon and Fight - pretty much flopped, but then he sang the intro song Discovery for the PlayStation 2 game Fushigi Yūgi: Suzaku Ibun. Gamers took it to number 24 in the Japanese charts.Mamaro's next single Soup was released as Setsuna F Seiei - his voiced character in the anime Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - and it entered the charts at number 18. As did To You, which followed in December 2008.Since then, his popularity as a singer has gone from strength to strength in his native Japan, culminating in sell out concerts and a horde of screaming fans. Two of which were filmed for his latest live DVD.Mamaro Miyano Special Live 2013 - Traveling! is a double disc DVD, with a Blu-Ray edition too. Disc 1 contains 24 songs performed live at Nihon Budokan, in Tokyo, on October 4th 2013. Disc 2 provides 17 songs from his Maihama Amphi Theater concert, in Chiba Prefecture, recorded on Mamaro's birthday - June 8th 2013.Mamaro Miyano's concert DVD will be released on April 23rd 2014.